Enterprise Application Enterprise Application Characteristics Drupal’s Competitors in WCM Things to know before designing Enterprise Application Architecture Available Technology Proposed Architecture for Enterprise CMS

1. Building Enterprise/High
Availability Application
with Drupal
September 7, 2015
Ratnesh Kumar
Project Lead

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Overview
• Enterprise Application
• Enterprise Application Characteristics
• Drupal’s Competitors in WCM
• Things to know before designing Enterprise
Application Architecture
• Available Technology
• Proposed Architecture for Enterprise CMS
• Questions?

3. Enterprise Application
• “An enterprise application is a business application, obviously.
As most people use the term, it is a big business application. In
today's corporate environment, enterprise applications are
complex, scalable, distributed, component-based, and mission-
critical” - Google
•“Enterprise applications are about the display, manipulation,
and storage of large amounts of often complex data and the
support or automation of business processes with that data” -
Martin Fowler
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4. Enterprise Application
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5. Enterprise Application Characteristics
• High Availability (Minimum or No Downtime)
• Can Handle High Traffic
• Easy Integration with Third Party Applications
• Performance
• Scalable
• Secure
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6. Drupal as Enterprise application
Ref: http://www.drupalshowcase.com
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7. Public/Government sites built with Drupal
Ref: http://www.drupalshowcase.com
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Government of India
https://mygov.in/
Other Sites:
https://data.gov.in/
http://deity.gov.in/
http://www.nic.in/
http://www.naac.gov.in/
http://www.indembassy
uae.org/

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Drupal’s Competitors
• Web Content Management System
 Adobe Experience Manager (earlier
known as CQ5) – (JAVA)
 Sitecore ( ASP.NET)
 Sharepoint (ASP.NET)
 IBM Web Content Manager

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Drupal’s Competitors
Expensive!!!
Adobe said during their recent partner summit that the average CQ deal is $450,000 in
license with the total implementation cost of over $2m USD. Adobe's focus is squarely on
the largest companies who value their entire Marketing Cloud, with experience manager
(CQ), analytics, targeting, social

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Things to Watch Out (NFRs)

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Things to Watch Out (NFRs)
Things to know before designing Enterprise Application
Architecture
 Expected Traffic on the application
 Number of Logged in User
 Third Party application integration
 Anticipated Page Load Time
 Other NFRs

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Available Technology
 Load Balancers
 Web Servers
 Apache
 Nginx
Caching
 Memcache
 Redis
 Boost
 Varnish
 CDN
 Database Servers

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Proposed Architecture

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Thanks… 